National Theatre at Home: Much Ado About Nothing (2022)

STC artistic director Simon Godwin directed two different productions of Much Ado in 2022: I saw the one in DC, which was set in a modern cable newsroom with Beatrice and Benedick as sniping co-hosts of a daily news show; this was the one in London, set against the backdrop of an art deco Hotel Messina in a version of 1930s Italy without the encroaching fascism.

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